child's modelling: pros & cons

[sonamay]

I'd like to register my daughter (age7.5) with a modelling agency. My mum is very against it as she thinks I could spoil the girl and introduce her into a quite horrible competitive world. It does cross my mind and the main thing I want for her is good education. She is very beautiful, but I don't want her to become full of herself, mix with wrong people, ect.
Can anyone tell me about the real world in childs/teens modelling if you know about it. Thanks.

There's a whole section on here devoted to child moggling, I think. Not sure where though.

Well, I can't tell you much about kids' modelling, but I worked as a model since I was 15 and there is no way in hell DD will be allowed to do that.

Soul-destroying,that's what it was. And I was a very successful model.

DS did a few shoots for French Vogue etc, but that was as a favour to our friends who were shooting or styling, not because I ever pushed him to do it. It was a few years ago and he couldn't care any less, but I would never encourage my child to go on castings to compete with other girls, to hear insensitive remarks made by the casting director about aspects of their physiognomy,to start obsessing about their looks...

I wouldn't, tbh.

As I thought then. Thanks, Winnybella.

And you may need to agree in advance that your child will miss school whenever there's a job. Not great for her education, and not great for her if it clashes with plays/sportsday/exam/match/trip etc

I agree with your mum. Do you really want to bring her up placing a huge amount of emphasis on how she looks?

Can't think of any pros to this at all, sorry.

what does she (dd) want to do?

It's so much hanging around and unpaid castings, I was a designer and had to choose the models, lots of tears form the rejected girls, always the girls, no way would my child be put through that for a hundred quid.